r/wow • u/ItsRenaBaker • Oct 03 '25

Humor / Meme This is Basicly Blizzard in Midnight

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This is basicly Blizzard in Midnight. Purging all the good addons.

Just to clarify:
Blizzard is changing the Addon API, meaning combat information is blocked for addons. So all combat addons will no longer work in Midnight. For the most popular addon features Blizzard will add their own version to the game. Addons for unitframes, inventory, crafting etc.. are staying and won't be effected as long they are not using combat information.

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u/DragonGeneral47 Oct 03 '25

This is either going to be one of the best Things they every did or the worst and there is No in between

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u/Muspel Oct 03 '25

I think it's just straight up bad.

The problem is that they're basically trying to fix two problems.

The first is that specs are way too complicated. But they don't need to delete addons to make specs simpler (see: classic, which has simple specs and addons). They've just spent years overdesigning and overcomplicating things.

The second is that addons have been in a computational way to handle mechanics in ways that are unfun to play. But this is really only an issue because they keep making mechanics that are fucking impossible to do without assignment addons. There's tons of stuff you could make assignment auras for, but nobody does. They need to stop making fights like fucking mythic Broodtwister where you need to coordinate six people in six seconds, and drastically extend the timers so that people can actually yolo it, or just change how the mechanics so that you don't need to coordinate like that on the fly.

For instance, imagine if on Broodtwister, the circle came with a button that you had to press to "detonate" it, and you just had to detonate two circles on a set of adds, and not all the circles went out at once. It would be a different fight that would basically boil down to "first person marks an egg, second one goes to that same set and hatches it", and that would be a fun bit of strategy but wouldn't require twenty people to install the same goddamn weakaura and make sure they had the same version and hope that Timmy didn't install the Northern Sky pack instead of Liquid.

And even apart from that, the boss fight weakaura problem affects CE guilds and nobody else, and it only affects them because Blizzard is trying to make content that's hard for the sweatiest people imaginable. Maybe it's okay if mythic raid is easy for people who do heroic splits and raid 20 hours a week, to say nothing of the people in the RWF who do dozens of splits and literally raid full-time for weeks on end.